T. BEARD-T. TAYLOR. 397 be the greatest person in the kingdom, but didnot Mention the word king; and though hewas told of the folly, as well as the wickedness of Such an assertion, he still persisted in it ; for which, at the request of his father, hewas flogged by. Dr. Beard." Cromwell, it is added, often mentioned this circumstance when arrived at the height of his glory.. Dr. Beard and Dr. Thomas Taylor, whose memoir is given in the next article, were joint authors of " The Theatre of God's Judgments ;" and he published a work entitled, Pedantius, Comwdia, olim Cantab. acta. in Coll. Trin. nunquarn ante liwc Typis evulgata," 1631. His portrait, prefixed to this work, says Granger,t is a neat whole length, with two scholars standing by him, a rod in his hand, and a label proceeding from his mouth, inscribed, As in prceserni. THOMAS TAYLOR, D. D.-This excellent divine was born at Richmond in Yorkshire, in the year 1576, and educated in Christ's college, Cambridge, where he was chosen fellow. He was the son of pious and worthy parents. His father was recorder of the town, and parti- cularly kind and liberal to the ministers silenced for non-, conformity, and the persecuted exiles from Scotland. Our divine had several brothers in the ministry. While at the university, his unwearied diligence and high attainments in good literature were manifest to all. He was, therefore, chosen fellow and Hebrew lecturer of the college. He at first, much opposed the puritans, as that sect which was every where spoken against; but afterwards espoused their cause, and became a sufferer with the rest of his brethren. He was for some time silenced, and threatened to be degraded, for a sermon which lie preached inSt. Mary's church, Cambridge, from Canticles, v. 7. " Thewatchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me ; the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me." That on which he chiefly insisted, and which gave offence to the ruling ecclesiastics, was, " that in every age, some of those who ought to have been promoters of the church's welfare, have been its persecutors." How long he remained under the unjust censure, we have not been able to learn. In the year 1606, he was again silenced by Bishop Harsnet, for nonconformity. He was afterwards violently opposed and harassed by Bishop Wren, who Noble's Memoirs of the MUSE of Cromwell, vol. i. p. 93-96; 109, Edit. 1787. t Biog. nisi. vol. al, p. 196.
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